Grade 4 • Visual Art What Your Child Will Learn

Grade 4 Visual Arts

What Your Child Will Learn

Respond and interact with the visual world to develop an understanding of meaning, context, and artistic processes.

  • Select or use appropriate vocabulary when responding to the visual world.
  • Identify and describe formal qualities and subject matter in the visual world.
  • Recognize how artists use different tools, materials, processes, and techniques to solve specific visual problems.
  • Describe how artists use visual art forms to represent what people see, know, feel, and imagine.
  • Explain how outside influences and life experiences affect the meaning of art objects.
  • Identify artistic skills and behaviors that people use throughout all aspects of life.

Create and develop new or personal ideas

  • Draw and record observations, ideas, and memories as a continual process in art.
  • Use select strategies to generate ideas for a given art problem.
  • Develop a personal work of art inspired by master artists or an interdisciplinary theme.
  • Develop and use select approaches such as observation, imagination, experimentation, narrative or memory to solve visual art problems.
  • Experiment and use formal qualities to solve art problems.
  • Use a variety of tools, materials, processes and techniques appropriately and safely to promote quality craftsmanship.
  • Use feedback and criteria to further develop and improve personal responses to art problems.
  • Effectively use resources and established criteria to solve art problems and persevere through a multi-step process within established time parameters.

Present personal artistic intent and choices through reflection, thoughtful presentation and/or exhibition of personal work

  • Review artwork as a way of reflecting on personal growth throughout the course of a studio experience.
  • Develop a reflective statement utilizing appropriate art vocabulary that explains the compositional choices, influences, personal meaning, or technical process based upon established criteria.
  • Use established criteria to evaluate completeness for presentation.
  • Support and verbally explain artistic choices using appropriate art vocabulary.

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